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The College Student as Strikebreaker
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college students felt a need to be more masculine. Strikebreaking replaced cane rush and football. Liked feeling they were part of military. The demand of strikes had no direct effect on the college kids lives. Universities encouraged college kids to strikebreak. Even cancelled classes so kids could strike break. March 1905 Columbia University students broke a strike of subway workers in New York. Biggest strike in New York.
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Sid Hatfield
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supported miners and their attempt to form UMWA. police chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan. He was indicted on murder charges for Albert and Lee and aquitted. Arrived in Welch for trial for another accident on August 1921. Baldwin Felts detectives shot him on the McDowell Country Courthouse steps. His death caused the miners to march onward.
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Don Chafin
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sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia and a commander in the Battle of Blair Mountain. Fierce opponent of unionization and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from coal mine operators in return for violent suppression of UMW union. 1921 successfully prevented miners from crossing through Logan County in the Battle of Blair Mountain
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Baldwin Felts Detectives
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crime busting agency founded in the 1890's. supplied guards and detectives used by mining industry to stop strikes, collect info on unions and prevent labor organizing and evict workers living on company property. Matewan Massacre May 19, 1920 7 Felts detectives killed including Felts brothers.
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Miners and the "Red Scare"
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1919-1920 fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns of effects of radical political agitation in American Society had spread and American Labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined period. Union member seen as radical and bad.
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Battle of Matewan
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shootout in town of Matewan, West Virginia in Mingo County on May 19, 1920 btw local miners and Baldwin Felts who were carrying out evictions. Hatfield intervened with arrest warrants. Felts had one for Sids arrest and Matewan Mayor said it was a fake. 7 detectives and 4 towns ppl die including Felts brothers and Mayor Testerman. It was the turning point in the battle for miner's rights.
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C.E. Lively
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Labor spy, coal company agent who befriended Sid Hatfield. Then turned against Sid in the Matewan Massacre in 1921 then helped in Sid's assassination. Part of union but secretly reported to Baldwin Felts detectives.
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P-9 Hormel Strike
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August 1985, workers went on strike in Austin, MN because of cut wages. Strike gained national attention and led to widely publicized boycott of Hormel products. Tension btw rank and file Ray Rogers and International Lewie Anderson.
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Battle of Blair Mountain
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For 5 days in late August in 1921 in Logan County, West Virginia, around 15,000 coal miners confronted an army of police and strikebreakers backed by coal operators during an attempt by miners to unionize the southwestern West Virginia coalfield. Battle raised awareness of bad conditions of miners ad led to direct change in union tactics.
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Brookside Strike
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also known as "Bloody Harlan". was an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company.They owned Eastover Coal company's, Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973. Miners at the Brookside Mine struck in June 1972 because the coal company wanted a no strike clause.
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